Identity and Culture Shaped by Foreign Language Learning: A Case of Iranian University Students

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Identity and Culture Shaped by Foreign Language Learning: A Case of Iranian University Students is written by Shakiba Razmeh and published by GRIN Verlag. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3656894264 (ISBN 10) and 9783656894261 (ISBN 13).

Scientific Study from the year 2015 in the subject Cultural Studies - Near Eastern Studies, , course: Language & Identity, language: English, abstract: As shifting identity and target cultural attachment act as important factors in the language learning process, this study aims to analyze the effects of learning English on the culture and identity change in Iranian EFL learners. To this end, fifty BA and fifty MA students majoring in TEFL participated in the study by answering the questionnaires. Also, twenty of them were interviewed along with ten EFL instructors. To control the factor of gender, all the participants were male. The data comes from two questionnaires and semi-structured interviews. The data was analyzed using SPSS. The interviews were analyzed based on content analysis procedures. The results of the study revealed that the younger the participants were the more they were interested in shifting their identities and attaching to the target culture. The results further indicated that MA students had more information about both their native and the target culture and they could manage their shifting identities better than the BA students.